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The Best Episodes of Heterdaad

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In this Flemish detective series, the Dutch title of which means in the act, notably "in flagrante delicto", a team of the Belgian (national) police lead by John Nauwelaerts investigates serious crimes, often against the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Heterdaad Season 4 Episode 4 - Episode 34
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Episode 34

    S4:E4

    Laurent Lanschot's Brussels agency's star model Vivi De Keyser is found strangled with a pantyhose. Gay colleague Vincent Glenisson explains her bitter rivalry with Bessie Luyten, who probably slept with Laurent. Bessie approaches Willy while he catches up with Vincent, a former playmate, leading to an IA complaint, forcing Willy to out himself, albeit only after Reggie forces him. Vincent plays a key part again after the team examines possibly jealousy of Viv's lover, Michael De Roeck.

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  2. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 13
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Episode 13

    S2:E3

    Nina Heylen has car trouble at night and gets raped in a dark alley and murdered afterward. The forensic team find traces of building material on her body. But finding clues at a building site is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Underneath Nina's body a tank card is found. This is the property of Nicole Callens, an editor of a woman's magazine. Her boyfriend René Stevens, who is unemployed, is known by the police as an aggressive drunkard. Nicole lies when she says her friend never uses her car. But is this evidence he is involved in the rape?

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  3. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 14
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #3 - Episode 14

    S2:E4

    The gangster Arnold Somville escapes from prison. His cell mate, junkie Dirk Van Hout, tells the police he might have shot his mouth off against Somville. Dirk's parents have a luxurious boutique in the Louisalaan and they have Canadian obligates, worth 3 million Franks, at home for grabs. Tibo, who is a regular customer there, warns Arthur Van Hout, but he can't arrange police protection, which pisses Arthur off very much. To be safe, he brings his obligates to the bank. That same night Somville pays him a visit and when there is nothing to steal, he shoots down Arthur. The attorney general, a personal friend of the Van Houtens, furiously blames Snoeckx, because he knew there was something going down and he did nothing.

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  4. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 10 - Episode 30
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Episode 30

    S3:E10

    When all the carved-up parts of Van Overbeke's corps are finally found, the autopsy mysteriously shows no violent or other specific cause for his fatal heart failure. The team discovers Frank Leuridon had an adulterous mistress but still no alibi. Her alcoholic husband MD Weyns's violent reaction gets Tibo injected with a fast-working and -broken-down poison, which fits the autopsy. Van Overbeke's private life proves relevantly sanctimonious.

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  5. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 15
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #5 - Episode 15

    S2:E5

    The two not too bright second hand car dealers Paul Antonis and Marc De Laet, try to earn some extra money by selling paintings in the showroom. They do earn a little extra now and again, but no so much as Paul spend on his mistress Rita Coppens just before he gets murdered. At the scene of the crime John sees "Het Baronneke", Clément Goeminne. He's a spiv who lies and cheats people of their money all of his life. John believes that if he's in the neighborhood, he must have something to do with the murder. No matter how charming he may sell him self.

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  6. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    While the BOB celebrate the departure of colleague Frans Van Lierde, a gruesome robbery with murder is committed on taxi driver Cyriel Stroobrants. He is the father of two kids. The BOB search in vain for the murderer. A small robbery in the neighborhood accelerates the investigation. It leads the investigators to a village teacher who seems to know more.

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  7. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 9 - Episode 19
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Episode 19

    S2:E9

    All of rural Dworp is upset to hear blue collar Raf Cauwenberghs's soccer-gifted son Kevin (11) went missing during a late wood run after group practice with coach Roger Poelaert. As if the locals' hostility against 'impertinent, lazy' federal cops weren't bad enough, the three involved police departments bicker amongst themselves. The captain puts John in charge as he wife is about to give birth. The team discovers the coach's adolescent son Patrick deals in stolen motorbikes. Gay teacher Peter Fonteyne tutored Kevin, according to unsubstantiated rumors with pedophile abuse. the crowd turns on him when Kevin's corps is found by his uncle-godfather Maurice Cauwenberghs in the part of the wood indicated by a 'medium'.

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  8. Heterdaad Season 4 Episode 7 - Episode 37
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #8 - Episode 37

    S4:E7

    Lonely gray mouse Matthys is found by her chiropractor Dirk Van Gelder, murdered at home, the corps covered with a dress too small in size. The only lead is that she was called by Mr. Joosen's telemarketing firm, notably sole male operator Donald Blomme, a loner, who lies to cover up he met the victim. The MO fits an earlier case, from which the dress seems passed on. The team can't prove anything against the apparent model citizen, so they set up a trap with the female cop as bait.

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  9. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #9 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    Tamara Godon, a sixteen year old girl, stays a while in a pub with her boyfriend Franco after school. When she goes home, she goes alone. The next day she is found dead. Franco is arrested, but then there is a rather strange discovery in Tamara's room.

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  10. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 25
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #10 - Episode 25

    S3:E5

    Ex-con Luc Paulus firmly resents any comment from her teacher Hilde De Bont about his good-for-nothing daughter Katrien's alcohol abuse and other oddities such as lots of cash. Tibo resisted his lover Nadia's saucily abusive demand to abuse police authority to lean on Paulus. Shortly after, his skull is smashed fatally. The team suspects former jail-mate Martin Coopman, now his partner in a window cleaning business, who actually fired him recently. Then they discover family and intimate secrets, yielding more suspects to be eliminated by alibi or forensics.

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  11. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 7 - Episode 27
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Episode 27

    S3:E7

    Electrician Eddy Vosberg is found hanging, a poorly staged 'suicide'. The team soon realizes he ran up crushing debts as a compulsive gambler. His family knew, but it's unclear how they tried to square loyalty with the interests of the family electric appliances business.

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  12. Heterdaad Season 4 Episode 1 - Episode 31
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Episode 31

    S4:E1

    Armored car driver Jan Stockmans, a failed restaurateur, robs 70,000,000 Belgian francs (about 1,75 million Euro) from his own cash transport. When he shows his wife Viviane the loot, fake Dutch passports and tickets for them and son Dennis to Rio, she refuses. Adjutant John, who wants to close the case by Friday when his holiday plane leaves, meanly arrests her as 'hostage' until she accepts to help set a trap while Dennis is forced to lodge with an aunt. Jan resorts to desperate measures with tragic consequences.

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  13. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Elisabeth 'Liddy' Godderis, missing since two days at her Brussels catering job, is found murdered at her home in Dilbeek (near Brussels). The killer changed the bed linen and washed her posthumously, in bath. Gardener Marcel Geeraerts, a former colleague and supervisor, saw leave her just-dumped young gigolo, truck-driver Alex Cools. Part of the team assumes he did it, others he's been set up, and indeed she had other admirers. Liddy's bachelor sole son André Godderis, in debt after a failed business she refused to invest in, is caught intruding the crime scene.

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  14. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 9 - Episode 29
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Episode 29

    S3:E9

    (Part 1 of 2) Old veterinarian Urbain Van Overbeke, one of the most influential men is his Brabant cattle village, is murdered and dumped in a canal, expertly cut into pieces with professional equipment. Young vet Frank Leuridon was after Urbain's clientèle and is rumored to have an affair with his daughter Dominique. Farmer Ronnie Ceulemans threatened publicly to kill him for officially disapproving his cattle, which he administered illegal hormones supplied by Frank, who insists they are health-safe. Ronie poisoned Urbain's horses with laurel in the night of the murder.

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  15. Heterdaad Season 4 Episode 5 - Episode 35
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Episode 35

    S4:E5

    Communications student Tanja De Roover didn't study for married professor Rummens's college course, expecting the questions in advance as his lover, but he had ti play fair with his teaching assistant Dirk Lauwerijs in attendance, so she fails. The next night, she dies from an asthmatic episode in the mud near her bike. The professor isn't the only one with a dubious alibi, but he's blackmailed by Tanja's vicariously greedily-ambitious ma. Tanja also promised to pass on the questions to her ex-lover, classmate Steven Onsia, a tormented heavy drinker who also failed the exam.

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  16. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #16 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    Tibo Leemans breaks up with his lover and grows tired of unreliable Matti's constant failing and brooding over her dad and her own youth. Martin Baeten dies from a broken neck, apparently accidentally, in a jealous fight with her new fiancé, marketing consultant Steve Hoste, over Martin's ex, Mini Max supermarket chain HQ computer programmer Andrea Daniëls, on the Brussels street outside her home. The next day, someone breaks the seals at Martin's apartment. Russian mobster Vladimir Vasiliev is spotted lurking around. Andrea and Steve lie about their business connection and common med studies past.

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  17. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 8 - Episode 18
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Episode 18

    S2:E8

    Doris De Caluwé works at an express delivery company. She is caught in the act when she holds back packages with expensive contents. At her home they find mostly jewels, but there is also a package for the undertakers firm of Arnold and Chris Van Beek. Between two panels the police find a rather big stash of heroin. After questioning it seems that Chris is put under pressure by Patrick Lemoine, an underworld figure. Chris has to pay off his gambling debts by drug running. In return for a reduced sentence he agrees to help getting the big guys of the gang. But it totally goes wrong. In the mean time Matti feels sorry for Doris, because Doris stole to pay for a breast prosthetic. She lost one due to breast cancer. But is such a compassion justified?

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Heterdaad Season 4 Episode 2 - Episode 32
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Episode 32

    S4:E2

    At the parking of a dancing just outside the city limits, a girl is found murdered. At first it seems a brutal settlement within the drugs scene. Matti thinks the policeman who were first at the scene act kind of strange. Do they know more? When the force digs deeper, they find dubious conditions within the local police.

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  19. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Episode 10

    S1:E10

    Juan promised his two good friends Noel and Roger a very big deal, but can't keep his promise. He has stolen the car from a certain Patrick Mariman and pulled the car totally apart, but couldn't find anything. He tries to sell the car back to Mariman, but the transaction doesn't go well and he gets shot. In the beginning the trail leads to Juans friends, but it seems that Juan worked at Mariman's golf club and was fired after a theft. He got that job thanks to Mariman's wife and two social workers, Michel Jacobs and Ria Maes. The incident of the theft was settled amicably. Mariman also gave 50.000 frank to Jacob's community center.

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  20. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode 22
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Episode 22

    S3:E2

    A woman found strangled in a Brussels furniture shop stockroom is identified as an ex-employed rural housewife, reported missing by her husband, Rudy Burgraeve. He refuses to question her whereabouts, even when forensics finds proof she recently had sex and a champagne dinner. Her shopping buddy Marleen De Kimpe helps the team digging into family secrets, and turns out to have been her 'colleague' in Etienne Helon's escort service. Finally son Benny, a law-student living generously in a Brussels apartment, features in more surprises.

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  21. Heterdaad Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 12
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #21 - Episode 12

    S2:E2

    Criminals Jos Van Mierlo and Danny Borré plan a robbery. Danny's mother Irma "Printemps" Lentedecker, a former diva from the Folies Bergères, has a relationship with Gustaaf Peeters. He has a job with an exchange office. Nobody suspects that this old, silly guy, who walks his dog daily, has a few million in his bag. Except for Mierlo and Borré. Borré could use that money very well, because he has a debt with some Moroccan loan sharks. They need a getaway car and plan to steal one from the parking of the Kinepolis. And from all the cars they could steal, they steal the car from the son of the attorney general. Bad move!

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  22. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 23
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Episode 23

    S3:E3

    Captain Capellen's attempt to divide the old team nearly succeeds in breaking up gay Willy Martens and his straight partner Reggie Bax. Matti Tomassetti is jealous when she realizes her husband, car salesman Vic, spends time networking at parties with his boss's sexy friends Wim and Yolande Zimmerman. When Wim is reported missing and the corps in his burnt-out car carries his papers, Matti's suspicions and illegal 'tenacity' arouse major procedure problems. Retired dog act circus artist Richardke's refusal to testify what he saw is key to this case and a related next crime.

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  23. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    Serge Graulus and his girl rob fur-maker Isaac Bachmann's workshop at night in his home. When the old man catches him in the act, Serge wrestles his shotgun away and uses it on him, fatally. After the team arrests Alain Steinberg's contraband gang, caught selling the fenced furs, he tips them off so they can trap Serge, but he gets away. An at first sight unrelated jewel case leads to his girl-friend Petra.

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  24. Heterdaad Season 1 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Episode 9

    S1:E9

    Ex-con Marco Beckers kidnaps his son from kindergarten, because his ex-girlfriend Pascale refuses him any contact. Because of the quick intervention from Nauwelaert's team, they can avoid worse. Beckers states that Pascale's new friend, antiquarian Frison, is much more of a criminal then he is, but he was lucky never to get caught. Frison declares that the boy is his son. Beckers has evidence that Frison deals in stolen art and also swindles with his insurance. An unsolved murder dossier about a shifty Dutch art dealer also mentions Frison, but Marco denies knowing about it. Investigating Frison and Beckers., John learns that Marco gets his information from his former foreign legion instructor Stassart.

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  25. Heterdaad Season 3 Episode 4 - Episode 24
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #25 - Episode 24

    S3:E4

    Brussels antique-dealer Fischer cries for help after being robbed by two masked men. Willy and Reggie arrive in time to start a gunfight, but can't arrest either robber. The captain uses this as another excuse to side-track the gay detective in therapy and sharpshooting training. Passerby Tom Duprez, who tried to help Fisher, was coldly shot dead by Guy Renquin, who later terminates his junior Eddy, who got wounded badly but is denied medical help. Dodgy former P.I. André Lamotte saw everything, finds the fence and demands a hefty informer's free from the police. Tom's pa, rich lawyer Duprez, uses his connections to breath in the team's neck and pays André, who is found executed the next day. The team can only connect Lamote with pregnant prostitute Claudine Delcroix, who proves as dumb and mean.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 34" is the best rated episode of "Heterdaad". It scored 8.2/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/28/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 13".